Trial forCollecting, Sharing and Preserving
Digital Research Assets in Asia
Akihiro Kameda (Research Assistant Professor, National Museum of Japanese History, Japan)
Kosei Mino (Independent Researcher, Japan)
Shigeo Sugimoto (Professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Agenda• Introduction, Background, and Purpose• RsDA inventory and its metadata model• Migration to Wikidata and RsDA-Wikidata data model• Join us!
• Toward data preservation

http://rsda.mydatabase.jp/

Searching for “rsda asia” will bring you here

RsDA isthe community“This acronym is close to RDA (ResearchData Alliance), which is a global allianceof institutions and organizations forbuilding the social and technicalinfrastructure to enable open sharing andre-use of data. The s in RsDA stands forsmall, sustainable and scholarly; the A
stands for not only Alliance but also Asia.”

RsDA manages its inventoryof research resources to share them

What is the difference from, say, re3data?
• Research data vs. Research data repositories
We focus on small data. So most of the entry is about research data, sometimes
held by an individual researchers rather than an institution.

• Networking oriented“RsDA is a network for collaboration” as the first line of RsDA website says.
I think this comparison is similar to the difference between PNC conference andDH conference. i.e. differences such as Small/Large, Offline/Online,
Regional/Global result in the style of sharing knowledge.

RsDA inventory- Finding Aid of Research ResourcesInventory
Database

Database
GUI/ HomePage

Database
GUI/ HomePage

Research Data
Research Data

Home Page

Database
Database
Database
HomePage
HomeHomePage
Page

Access Points
from Inventory
DatabaseExample website of a dataset (1)Search window

Listed items in the datasetExample website of a dataset (2)Research data dataset
in a data repository

List of Downloadable files

Metadata Model
Datasetdescribes

Inventory
Entry

Example Source Object (1)Dataset ofMagazines

Example Source Object (2)Dataset of
Fieldnotes

RsDA data model
is about
Datasetdescribes
describes
Inventory
Entry

SourceObjectRsDA data model
is about
Datasetdescribes

SourceObjectconsists ofInventory
Entry

SourceObjectEntry

describes

describes

Collect

Data
describes
describes

CollectDataEntryExample of a cataloguing processExample of a cataloguing processMigration toWikidata• 1000 mil entities• Thousands ofproperties• Linked Datafunctionality

Migration toWikidata• 1000 mil entities• Thousands ofproperties• Linked Datafunctionality

Various classes

Various properties

Concept made of Union

wd:Q1225034 wd:Q8513 wd:Q212805
wd:Q60474998 wd:Q1988927 wd:Q1172284→ digital library, digital archive,…
wdt:P921 wdt:P17 wdt:P840→ narrative location, main subject,…

RsDA-Wikidata guidelines• There are lot of considerations and we have no time
to explain all of them in this presentation, we arepreparing the detailed documentation.
• We focus on three problems mainly:• Choice of classes• Source Object and its description• Language information

RsDA-Wikidata guidelines• You should select the most detailed one as long as it is common
enough and you are confident to assign it .
• Assign one of the sub-classes of “online database”(Q7094076) asmuch as possible, and if necessary you can write other classes also.

RsDA-Wikidata data model(identical) / based on
Wikidata
Entrydescribes

OnlineOnlinedatabase
database

SourceObject{qualifier} of
media
type

main subject
languagemaintained bysubject(any entity)

start/end of covered period
agent

name, birth, …

period…

language…

Any other{qualifier} applies to partRsDA data model
is about
Datasetdescribes

SourceObjectconsists ofInventory
Entry

SourceObjectEntry

describes

describes

Collect

Data
describes
describes

Collect

Data
Entry

Not only when you publish your database,
But also when
• You heard a presentation mentioning interesting online database,• You saw a news article mentioning interesting online database,

it is a chance to share them with describing it on Wikidata!

Forest Service
Research Data Archive(Q113997698)

Forest Service
Research Data Archive(Q113997698)

Distributed from

School rules database(Q113997495)
e.g.

(2) The skirt length for girls shall be between 3 cm
and 7 cm below the centre of the knee and shallcover the knee.
(3) The colour of the shirt and underwear underthe blouse shall be plain and of a light colour suchas white, grey or cream. However, a single point on
the chest area is allowed.

Not only when you publish your database,
But also when• You heard a presentation mentioning interesting online database,• You saw a news article mentioning interesting online database,

it is a chance to share them with describing it on Wikidata!

We can query them with Wikidata Query Service

Links• RsDA project website
http://rsda.mydatabase.jp Searching for “rsda asia” will bring you here
http://rsda.mydatabase.jp/inventory/descriptions/index.html RsDA Inventory• This presentation slides online
http://rsda.mydatabase.jp/events/pnc2022/kameda.pdf• Form for submitting your Wikidata entry to RsDA
https://forms.gle/G6M7NQ6xC5Sf4LUo9• My User-talk page on Wikidata about RsDA and Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:KAMEDA,_Akihiro/RsDA

Towards data preservation
To facilitate searching is not the final destination of our project• Sharing is caring, and vice versa
Share description of the data → Care the data & the researchers behind that
→ Easier access, use and maintenance of the data

• Automatic alive monitoring• Helping migrating, web archiving or data archiving
cf. Dataverse, SUCHOLinks• RsDA project website
http://rsda.mydatabase.jp Searching for “rsda asia” will bring you here
http://rsda.mydatabase.jp/inventory/descriptions/index.html RsDA Inventory• This presentation slides online
http://rsda.mydatabase.jp/events/pnc2022/kameda.pdf• Form for submitting your Wikidata entry to RsDA
https://forms.gle/G6M7NQ6xC5Sf4LUo9• My User-talk page on Wikidata about RsDA and Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:KAMEDA,_Akihiro/RsDA